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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:04 PM

Andrew Sampson, Stephen Fry and Social Media

Over on the MS Advertising site , my friend Mel Carson has a great interview with Andrew Sampson - who discusses social media and his part in the Stephen Fry phenomenon.  Interesting interview which covers: How Andrew was inspired to set Stephen
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Friday, October 09, 2009 10:57 AM

The Great(ish) Expression/Sketchflow UI Magnet Giveaway

If you weren't at FOWA last week, then not only did you miss out on understanding the future of web applications, but you also missed the Microsoft crew talking about Web Platform Installer , ASP.NET MVC , and WebsiteSpark . (And The Gu was there. Funnily
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:45 AM

Advertising Week

London-based friend and colleague Mel Carson was busy out at Advertising Week in NYC last week. The Microsoft Advertising team have put together a hub covering proceedings - you can find it here . Of particular interest to me was this demo of Looking
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:49 AM

ServerQuest

Nice find from Mr. Bennett . Ah, those were the days. Nice bit of Silverlight too though I understand Silverlight 3 will have slightly better graphics ;)
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Friday, March 20, 2009 10:30 AM

Aiiieeee 8

Phew – long day yesterday as I was helping a bunch of fellow DPErs with the MWord in London – a little get-together to recap on the announcements from Mix. I guess the main announcement yesterday was IE8 and there’s only one thing to say really: go get
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Monday, March 16, 2009 12:18 PM

2019 Vision

Talking of all that cliched 20:20 vision stuff, nice to see that Microsoft dodged a bullet and went with 2019. I love this video as an “inspira-tron” and really want to get my hands on the smart newspaper thing. Meantime I guess I have to settle for Surface
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Monday, March 16, 2009 12:06 PM

Visual Metaphors

Loved this Periodic Table of Typefaces from SwissMiss The Periodic Table works really well as a visual metaphor presumably because it sat on the wall of despised Chemistry lessons for most of our childhood. That kind of imagery is difficult to remove.
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:05 AM

VS2010 and Teleporting Squid

Last Friday, I was involved in an event in London with Rich Erwin and Graeme Scott under the auspices of providing some information about VS2010 and SQL 2008, but also to watch “The Watchmen”. Rich has posted some follow-up on the tools blog , including
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:26 PM

GlaxoSmithKline and Microsoft Online Services

Filed under “stuff that happened while I was away” is this fairly important announcement that GSK is to deploy 100,000 seats of hosted services from Microsoft (they’d previously been on Notes). As ZDNet reports , it makes Google’s 15,000 seats at Genetech
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Friday, February 27, 2009 11:14 AM

Some TechFest Goodness

TechCrunch picked up on a couple of goings on at TechFest 2009 – where the smart guys at Microsoft Research share their latest ideas. Stuff such as: Surface Image Projection beyond the screen. Social Desktop Viveri – actually, this was mentioned by LiveSide
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:10 AM

MVP Blog

Jas Dhaliwal ( @jas ) is looking after some social media work on the MVP program in the UK and this blog has been fairly active since December . Nice one Jas. I pinged him on obtaining an OPML file for all the (UK) MVPs and hopefully he’s pulling something
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:14 PM

Multi-Touch Surface with Physics Engine

Fresh up on the YouTube Channel is this awesome piece of work from the guys in the Microsoft Technology Centre . I’ve talked about the value the MTC for a business before . This particular work was by Dave and Andy who are some of the smartest guys I
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 1:03 PM

Windows 7 – Time please ladies and gentleman…

If you’re not a TechNet or MSDN subscriber then time is running out (10th Feb!) to get your hands on the Windows 7 bits. If you’ve been procrastinating, now is the time! My personal reflections are that it’s a very positive experience. I’ve only been
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 12:10 PM

What People Actually Want

I thought this article from Jack Schofield was interesting . Are Netbooks an additional device? My Netbook is certainly additional, but would be my main device if I spent a lot of time wandering around the streets of London (or similar). But overall I
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 11:36 AM

Microsoft teams and groups using Twitter

Nice post from Adam Kinney listing a bunch of teams and products that have presence on Twitter, including Channel 9 , BizSpark , MIX09 ( you are going right?) and Live Mesh . Not on the list right now is our very own @AskTechNetUK for all of your IT related
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